ECS L7S7A2 SiS 746 Mainboard Review (3)

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ECS L7S7A2 SiS 746 Mainboard Review (3)
Overclocker 31 Jan 2002

Benchmarking

Memory Benchmarks (fsb:166, AXP2700+)

SiSoft Sandra 2002

The infamous SiSoft Sandra 2002 is used to test out the memory benchmarks, CPU Arithmetic and Multimedia benchmarks. All the systems are tweak to it's maximum possible settings of CAS 2, 2-2-5.

All boards running in SYNC DDR333 (166/166) otherwise specified. The FSB of the various boards are :

ECS L7S7A2 : 166.65Mhz
SiS 746FX Ref board : 168.2Mhz
EPoX 8RDA+ : 167.05Mhz
ABIT KD7 : 166.88Mhz

First of all, we have to take note that the ECS L7S7A2 is running exactly on the dot. 166.65Mhz. The benchmarks obtained for other boards might be skewed a bit if it is above the rated FSB (default).

In SiSoft Memory benchmarks, we can see from here that the ECS L7S7A2 performs better when it runs in Async DDR400 mode. It lost to SiS 746FX board by a bit considering that the fsb is slightly lower and the BIOS is the first official bios which has not been tuned for performance.

In the CPU Multimedia tests, the ECS L7S7A2 seems to perform better if FPU than ALU. We have mixed results here. The FPU performance seems better on the L7S7A2.

Again we see that the FPU performance in this test is better on ECS L7S7A2.

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